Armor and Weaponry

Armor includes helmets, possible shields, possible greaves, and sheaths for blades. Not much remains in this category, most armor was probably constructed of boiled leather, or textiles with metal disks attached. Since leather and textiles are perishable, these do not remain in the archaeological record. Later examples of armor include scale armor made by sewing overlapping metal oblongs onto a linnen background.

Sheilds were made with wickerwork, boiled leather in a frame, or metal disks. They range in size from arm length and circular to body length and rectangular. Metal sheilds were usually small and circular because of the weight.

Helmets started out as cloth or boiled leather caps and transitioned into metal helmets. See helmets as a subcategory for more information.

Sheaths were also probably constructed of reeds/leather as evidenced by psudomorphs on the blades. A few metal sheaths do remain.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
9659	(none)	1928,1010.322	(none)	Copper Dagger Tang perforated to receive rivets
13586	31-17-223	(none)	(none)	Copper Dagger. Portion of tang missing. Type I.
10797	(none)	(none)	B17366	Copper Fish spear. Shaped like a double pronged hoe. For sketch see Field Note.
15780	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper fish(?) spear. 2 prongs, with wooden haft. [drawing]
6645	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper greave. Fragmentary. E.
8236	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper lance head. Barbed and socketed. [drawing] [type] VII. A. [drawn]
10047	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Lance-head [drawing] Type I
9911A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Lance-heads Poker type with square section and short tang (one broken) Type__
9911B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Lance-heads Poker type with square section and short tang (one broken) Type__
9911C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Lance-heads Poker type with square section and short tang (one broken) Type__
10475	(none)	(none)	B17066	Copper Object ? armour ? But it was apparently nailed into a wooden background. [drawing] Embossed on it two figures of lions and two of men and below, a disk with 8-petalled rosette.
10059	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Object Covered with small hollow studs The metal is very thin and was laid over a wooden base of which plentiful traces remained. The shape was difficult to determine, but the studs, etc., covered nearly the whole of one end of the annex though more plentiful on the side next to the coffin. It might have been a shield?
9913	(none)	(none)	B17343	Copper Object Long slender rod, one end flattened to a chisel shape, probably for hafting, the other end slenderer and curled. All over the curled end there are marks of binding with fine string or sinew. To it is attached part of a second perhaps similar rod. [drawing]
8899	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper object. Shaped as below [reference to drawing] [drawing 1:1]
19246	(none)	1935,0112.26	(none)	Copper Prong. Circular-section shaft from which rise two curved prongs (not of the same length) square in section. A square-section tang was fitted into a wooden handle encased in thin copper.
7853	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pronged tool. [drawing]
6655	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper quiver. Remains of wonder. Shell inside. Fragmentary.
6646	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper quiver. With lid. Fragmentary.
10181	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Spear Broken in 3 pieces Type 2
10361	(none)	(none)	B17507	Copper Spear Long flat blade Type II
10531	(none)	(none)	B17004	Copper Spear Long flat blade. Long haft square in section
9518	(none)	(none)	B17347	Copper Spear Poker type, square-section with short square-section tang Type VI.
9701	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper spear Tang rounded in section Rib runs vertically down middle of blade Type III [drawing]
10466B	(none)	(none)	B17334	Copper spear butts [drawing] Type__
10466A	(none)	(none)	B17334	Copper spear butts (A,B) [drawing] Type__